"It's all about the first leaf that hits the ground, in a statement of analogy, and that leaf might be me."

With the departure two weeks ago of Omarosa and with only one certifiable wackadoo left on "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice," tonight's episode was a pretty tame ... right up until the last few seconds, when Team Plan B's ousted Stephen Baldwin shares some advice for his fellow contestants: "Be like Mr. Trump. Be willing to absolutely disregard your morals and your character in order to be successful."

THE TASK: Make a silent movie promoting Australian Gold suncare brand. The teams will be judged on product integration, messaging and creativity. The winner project manager will get $40,000. Trump also movies Marilu Henner from Team Plan B to Team Power to even things out.

TEAM PLAN B:Gary Busey is elected leader and he wants to set the film in the 1920s. Stephen and Lisa Rinna petition for giving the film some contemporary feel, but Gary feels that would conflict with his artistic integrity. The Australian Gold folks say the brand mascot, Sydney the koala bear, is an important part of the brand. They also says the company is known for its fragrance, and that their bronzers are their top-selling products. Gary's idea is for a "vampire with a day pass" who's afraid to go out into the sun; the vampire aspect goes away, thankfully, and the final concept is Gary playing a suave Australian Gold messenger who encourages the girl out into the sun with her guy.

There is some not-so-generous pixellation of Gary's little Busey.

Penn Jillette and Stephen clash as they flesh out the film, Penn basically mocking Stephen's cliched ideas, and Stephen ignoring his input. Lisa is cast as the scared-of-the-sun woman in the film, and Gary wants her to hold the mascot Sydney, her "safety animal." Stephen: "Whatever." Gary is wearing a tan suit with a pink Hawaiian shirt and striped board shorts over his pants. Stephen takes over the directing: "Give me a closed-mouth smile," he suggests to Gary. That's the smartest decision he makes.

In the editing suite, Penn and Stephen once again clash, this time over the speed of the footage. Penn wants it faster to cover up for some "laborious" parts, while Stephen says that makes the story lose nuance, and says what is laborious to one man is charming to another. (For the record, Stephen is laborious to this recapper.) Stephen says Penn's comments were a sublimal way of saying Stephen's work sucks. Not so subliminal, Stephen. Penn says later he could have been nicer.

Trace Adkins, the project manager of Team Power, stars in his team's film for Australian Gold.NBC

TEAM POWER:Brande Roderick pitches an idea about the history of suncare, starting in prehistoric times and leading up to the present day. Trace Adkins, the project manager, likes it: "Well, I basically am a housebroken caveman." Lil Jon had done an Australian Gold task before, so he takes the reins in the meeting with the execs. Trace looks annoyed, but it seems to be more about how long the meeting is taking than Lil Jon taking over. Trace and Lil Jon quibble about the concept; Trace wants to focus on the caveman story and leave product integration for the final frames, while Lil Jon pushes for more product integration throughout the film.

Lil Jon is directing. Marilu Henner is everywhere: "My knob goes to 2," Trace says. "Her knob goes to 11." Ivanka Trump gets quite a kick out of Trace in his caveman get-up and likes their concept, but worries about execution. Marilu annoys Lil Jon with her time-consuming suggestions; he's worried about getting the final shot — the only shot with the products — but he manages to squeeze it in.

THE BOARDROOM: The executives loved both films, but felt that Team Plan B didn't feature the product line enough and focused too much on the bronzer, and that Team Power should have featured the product sooner. Team Power wins! At last! Trace gets another $40,000 to give to the American Red Cross. It's his second win.

Stephen, who has been credited with the directing and most of the script, is asked why he didn't incorporate more of the products. He says they just couldn't figure out a way to do it, and acknowledges the error, as does Penn, although Penn complains about the lack of subtlety with which the other team shoehorned in the product display at the end. Penn says he's heartbroken to have to nominate Gary to be fired because he did an "astonishing" job. Stephen says the ultimate responsibility lies with the project manager, but says it was the best Gary has ever performed. Gary says he's going to bring back Stephen and Penn. "It's all about the first leaf that hits the ground, in a statement of analogy," Gary says, "and that leaf might be me."

Gary says he's not sure whether Stephen is to blame, but also says that Stephen is the director and didn't put the products in. Stephen says that they knew they should have incorporated the product, but they ran out of time trying to finesse that shot. Gary tells Trump that Penn should not have been fired, but he was asked to bring two people back. Trump lets Penn leave. I don't want to jinx it, but Penn and Trace for the finals, please!

Stephen blames Gary for signing off on the film without highlighting the products, and backpedals a bit on his praise for Gary. Trump decides that as director, Stephen should have put the product in, and points out that Stephen did initially say that Gary did an amazing job. Stephen is fiyahed.

MR. CHOMPERS' THOUGHT OF THE DAY: "The word 'past,' p-a-s-t, stands for 'preoccupation about spent time ... 'Now' stands for 'no other way.'"